How to play a DVD? Which VIDEO_TS/*.VOB file?

[thoste]

In my DVD drive (resp. in a folder on my hard disc) there is a DVD with an AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folder.
The VIDEO_TS folder contains a lot of *.VON and other files.

How do I start playing the DVD?

1.) When I click menu Media->Open Disc -> E:\
it start only the first intro with the language selection menu and stops then.
So this does NOT work

2.) When I click the menu Media->Open File->VIDEO_TS.VOB
it plays only the trailer and does NOT play
VTS_01_0.VOB,...,VTS_01_7.VOB
So this does not work too

So what is the recommended way?

Thomas

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Open the IFO file or simply the directory.

[sebuschi]

Did this help? I can try to open the directory or the ifo file but I can only hear the trailer music no pictures. I have the video stream after reinstalling, but if I end vlc-player and restart it: again no pictures. Any clue to this?

Running 1.0.5 under Windows XP professional version 2002, Service Pack 3

[sebuschi]

Some more information: If I reinstall the player I can view the DVD, everything's OK. But if I end vlc and restart it again I don't get the pictures. Setting messages' verbosity level to 2 I get:

main debug: adding item `dvd://E' ( dvd://E:\ )
main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Wiedergabeliste
main debug: rebuild done - 1 items, index -1
main debug: processing request item dvd://E node null skip 0
main debug: resyncing on dvd://E
main debug: dvd://E is at 0
main debug: starting new item
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for 'dvd://E'
qt4 debug: Adding a new MRL to recent ones: dvd://E:\
main debug: thread (input) created at priority 1 (../.././src/input/input.c:230)
main debug: thread started
main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MBytes
main debug: using timeshift path 'C:\DOCUME~1\ACHIMB~1\LOCALS~1\Temp'
main debug: `dvd://E:\' gives access `dvd' demux `' path `E:\'
main debug: creating demux: access='dvd' demux='' path='E:\'
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 2 candidates
qt4 debug: IM: Setting an input
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
dvdnav debug: trying to go to dvd menu
main debug: using access_demux module "dvdnav"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 4055.000 ms - Total 4055.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 4055.000 ms)
main debug: `dvd://E:\' successfully opened
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_HOP_CHANNEL
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_VTS_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: - vtsN=1
dvdnav debug: - domain=8
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_CELL_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: - cellN=1
dvdnav debug: - pgN=1
dvdnav debug: - cell_length=543600
dvdnav debug: - pg_length=543600
dvdnav debug: - pgc_length=3697200
dvdnav debug: - cell_start=0
dvdnav debug: - pg_start=0
...

then later:

main debug: Buffering 94%
main debug: Buffering 95%
main debug: Buffering 95%
main debug: Buffering 96%
main debug: Buffering 96%
main debug: Buffering 97%
main debug: Stream buffering done (301 ms in 12 ms)
main warning: backward_pts != current_pts (5985155)
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
libmpeg2 error: DpbDisplayPicture called on an invalid picture
libmpeg2 error: DpbUnlinkPicture called on an invalid picture
main debug: End of video preroll
main debug: Received first picture
libmpeg2 error: DpbUnlinkPicture called on an invalid picture
main debug: Decoder buffering done in 36 ms
main warning: the mixer got a packet in the past (50777)
main warning: the mixer got a packet in the past (18777)
main warning: mixer start isn't output start (7210)
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
main debug: removing module "blend"
main debug: looking for video blending module: 1 candidate
blend debug: chroma: YUVA -> I420
main debug: using video blending module "blend"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 1.000 ms - Total 1.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 1.000 ms)

Does this say something to somebody?

[marpiw]

It says to mew that you are working very hard to try to play a Video on VLC.I think that you could play it more easily on the Windows Media Player or in Nero Show.Best regards